Today’s Top Stories

Monroe County Health Commissioner Dr. Michael Mendoza visited the Monroe County Bar Association Friday to train a group of people to use Narcan to save a person suffering an opioid overdose. In the past 18 months or so, Mendoza has ...

Constellation Brands has announced chief financial officer David Klein will present at Barclay’s Global Consumers Staples Conference on Wednesday, Sept. 4 in Boston. Scheduled for 11:15 a.m., the speech will be available for live stream at cbrands.com, and will primarily ...

A New Jersey-based optical component manufacturer has opened a branch in Rochester. Esco Optics Inc., based in Oak Ridge, N.J., has produced optics since 1955 and has a staff of 48. Esco products are used in UV, visible and IR ...

The University of Rochester will receive $1.55 million in funding from the National Science Foundation to support research in quantum computing. U.S. senators Charles E. Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand announced the award Thursday. They said the funding will help researchers ...

Ashley Daggett says the rehabilitation department at St. John’s Home is the facility’s voice to the community, and she is one of the leaders of that effort. Daggett, 32, stepped up to the role of rehab administrator at St. John’s ...

It may be hard to imagine holding your tongue while dealing with a customer whose language is peppered with racial slurs. Or approaching someone who shrinks in fear because of your color or accent. Or, attempting to administer first aid, ...

As Herb Besaw gazes out the window of the SPOON Exhibits & Events headquarters in Macedon, it’s impossible for him to forget his roots. Having grown up on a farm in the St. Lawrence County town of Gouverneur, the view ...

Hunter’s Hope Foundation was created on a kitchen table in the wee hours of the morning following Hunter Kelly’s diagnosis of Krabbe leukodystrophy, a rare but fatal genetic disorder that affects the myelin, or white matter, in the brain. ...

Mary Russo has been named president and CEO of the Mental Health Association of Rochester/Monroe County. Russo, who recently served as the nonprofit’s interim president and CEO, previously was chief financial officer at the Louis S. Wolk Jewish Community Center ...

The George Eastman Museum has received a $350,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to support its Preserving and Improving Access to the Boyer Collection project. The NEH grant, from its Division of Preservation and Access, Humanities Collections ...

ESL Federal Credit Union is slated to make its first acquisition: Victor-based Cooper/Haims Advisors, this fall. Made through ESL Investment Services, a subsidiary of the credit union, the deal is expected to serve as an expansion of the Wealth Management ...

The University of Rochester has hired a new vice president and general counsel: Donna Gooden Payne, who currently holds a similar position at East Carolina University in Greenville, N.C. Payne will join the UR administration Oct. 21, replacing Gail Norris, ...

Rochester People’s Climate Coalition is trying to go viral like the Ice Bucket Challenge did, but with melting instead of freezing. And instead of curing a disease, the group is aiming to cure the planet of climate change by ...

An Italian deli and import shop from the west side now has an east side presence. City officials held a ribbon cutting ceremony Wednesday at Calabresella on Park at Park Avenue and South Goodman Street. The restaurant has been operating ...

The largest beer company on the planet, Anheuser-Busch InBev (AB), has set a massive goal for their non-alcoholic beer brands, with Rochester poised to take a major role in their pilot U.S. run. Rochester has been tapped as one of ...